The most important feature for me is being able to access the program from the Windows Explorer right click context menu. I hate having to open a program & rebrowse to the directory that I'm already working with. That goes for any application.

A mate took our Navman S30 to Europe. He bought the European maps but the Navman wouldn't allow him to navigate to an address outside of the country he was currently in. So he had to refer to maps to try and find out where he should cross the border and navigate to there. Then he could navigate to his destination in the new country.

As you can imagine he made plenty of mistakes covering half of Europe resulting in many hours wasted. Not to mention that refering to maps kind of defeats the purpose. Since I'm going to Europe myself later this year I've decided I'll be buying a new GPS. If anybody can recommend how to avoid this problem it would help me sleep easier at night!

I know nothing about programming. It's something I've always wanted to get into & at the moment I have 2 areas of interest.

For fun I'd like to get into modifying Windows, particularly Explorer. Sort of like QTTabBar: http://qttabbar.wikidot.com/I notice that this application requires the .NET Framework. I'm not sure if that is a language itself.

But for a higher priority serious endeavour I'd like to create a website similar to eBay in a lot of ways. But I don't know anything about webdesign. I don't even have a blog!

It's getting the ball rolling that is usually the hard part for me. I'd appreciate any kicks in the right direction.

I know someone complained about this earlier.There's a better solution than what you're thinking. Here on DC, someone made a program that unzips stuff always to the top directory, thus, it never creates the subdirectory you mentioned (even if it exists in the rar) .Unfortunatelly, after a quick search, I wasn't able to find this program. But I'm sure someone knows what I'm talking about and will get you a nice link

Similar results for people too lazy for AHK (like me) can be achieved using QTTabBar, if I remember correctly, and even more advanced with Pitaschio, where pressing F2 cycles between filename, extension and full filename with extension. The latter also works in open/save dialogs.

When I extracted 2 password archives I got the Smart Unpack error message for each.When I extracted in the order of 1 regular archive then 1 password archive then 1 regular archive the password archive was deleted & an empty folder created.

The foreign character bug doesn't occur unless Smart Unpack creates a folder with the relevant characters.

The archives I have are hundreds of MBs each. Maybe they were created on a native Asian version of Windows? I can't create archives with foreign characters either but you can rename with foreign characters after their creation so try copying the exact characters from my previous post.

Thanx for continuing the development of this. I don't think anyone who uses it could revert to not using it.

1 other thing: I find the GUI gets in the way when it is busy because you can't move it. Is it possible to change this? It would be preferrable to be able to minimise it to the system tray.

I had a quick test of the multiple instance prevention & noticed no difference in behavior. I'll keep an eye on it & let you know how I go.

If anyone's interested I haven't had the DEP problem since a clean reinstall of XP. I guess the problem was caused by some other 3rd party addon.Some bugs:1. When I used the GUI for multiple extraction WinRar asked me the password for a Rar file. I cancelled via the WinRar prompt but Smart Unpack still deleted the archive. Had I only been extracting 1 file I would have got an information message from Smart Unpack & the archive would remain safe & sound.

2. I used Smart Unpack on an archive which had these characters in the filename: 专辑 It seems any of those foreign characters cause Smart Unpack to delete the archive & the temporary file leaving you with nothing!

If configured to recycle files, it'll now properly recycle split archive files in all variations (rar).

I love this. After extraction files can be in a different order & sometimes filenames are too long to be able to see an extension. As time has gone by I've realized how reassuring it is to have 50 split archives automatically deleted when an extraction is complete. No chance of deleting the wrong file or not deleting one of the correct ones.

Still not working:Prevent multiple instances. Please don't select several files and unpack them via the context menu. If you want to unpack several files at once, use the GUI.

I know this feature is not supported but I wish it was. Maybe you have been waiting for an excuse to get back to playing with this!

When I unpack multiple archives at the same time they seem to unpack OK because the temporary folders in the root of the drive remain. Wouldn't it be possible for Smart Unpack to check if it is already running & queue extractions like the GUI version if neccesary?

Sorry about my late reply. I didn't receive email notifications of the replies.

You guys are the best. I should have posted here sooner. I Googled for days & couldn't turn up anything.

tinjaw, I tried your solution & it didn't work.

Daleus, I then tried your solution & it didn't work either.

So I tried TweakUI & that didn't work!!!!!

BUT I tried other settings in TweakUI & found that the GUI describes the wrong setting. When I set TweakUI to "Never show drive letters" I in fact had the setting to place drive letters at the beginning of all my drives.

I looked in the registry & this is the key TweakUI created:[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]"ShowDriveLettersFirst"=dword:00000004